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Blenheim Orange
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Triploid. Discovered by Mr Kempster at Woodstock near Blenheim, Oxfordshire, England in about 1740. Distributed in about 1818. It received the Banksian medal from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1822. Fruits have creamy white, somewhat coarse-textured and rather dry flesh with a rich, characteristic aromatic flavour. Cooks well.
- Synonyms:
- Beauty of Dumbleton, Belle d'Angers, Bleinheim Pepping, Bleinheim Pippin, Blenhaimska zlatna reneta, Blenheim, Blenheim Orange Pippin, Blenheim Pepping, Blenheim Pippin, Blenheimer Goldrenette, Blenheimer Reinette, Blenheimi renet, Blenheims Guldrenett, Blenheimska, Blenheimská reneta, Blenheimská reneta, Gold reinePippin, Gold-Reinette von Blenheim, Konigin Victoria, Lucius Apfel, Northampton, Northwich Pippin, Northwick Pippin, Northwitch Blenheim, Orange Pippin, Perle d'Angleterre, Pomme de Blenheim, Postrophe, Prince de Galles, Prince of Wales, Reinette d'Or de Blenheim, Reinette de Blenheim, Reinette de Savalle, Reinette doree de Blenheim, Reinette Gold von Blenheim, Renet auriu de Blenheim, Renet Blengeimskii, Renet Blengheimskii, Renet de Blenheim, Renet Zolotoi Blengeimskii, Renet zolotoi blengheimskii, Reneta Blenheimska, Renetta dorata di Blenheim, Ward's Pippin, Woodstock, Woodstock Pippin, Woodstock's Pippin, Zlota reneta Blenheimska
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Paramor)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Croft Pendarren)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Donnington)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Ffordd-fawr)
- Mother to:
- Oxford Yeoman
- George Carpenter
- Oxford Conquest
- Beauty of Hants
- Howgate Wonder
- Annie Elizabeth
- Edward VII
- Eynsham Challenger
- Eynsham Dumpling
- Sergeant Peggy
- Robert Blatchford
- Father to:
- Celt
- Victory (Carpenter)
- Newton Wonder
- Sports:
- Aldenham Blenheim
- Red Blenheim (Wastie)
Accession No.
1973 - 133
- Accession name
- Blenheim Orange (LA 62A)
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
19th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late September 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Flat globose 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 1
Accession No.
2000 - 022
- Accession name
- Blenheim Orange (Wisley)
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019